Pokemon Go Japan Launch Delayed Because of a McDonald's Email

Pokemon Go's scheduled Japanese launch today has reportedly been delayed after a McDonalds email leak.

As we reported yesterday, the Japanese launch was rumoured to be taking place today, July 20, with the game's first sponsored Gym locations coming in the form of 3,000 Japanese branches of McDonald's.

However, the leaked internal McDonald's email that formed the basis of that rumour is now seemingly the same reason the launch will not go ahead as planned.

Exit Theatre Mode

According to Tech Crunch (which originally published the email, and is now presumably enemy no. 1 for millions of budding Pokemon trainers), that news went viral, and Niantic has now decided that the potential wave of new users would lead to server crashes.